Indexing the Fastest Growing SaaS Companies

On a related note. I always thought Xero made for an interesting case study for saas founders, as the company has went public when it had 150~ customers. That's pretty uncommon, and means that Xero's financial (including user/subscription growth) metrics are available for every year since founding.

All here: https://www.xero.com/au/about/investors/financial-info/

Disclaimer: I work at Xero: API, integrations & add-on ecosystem.

> The list will include the largest saas companies and smaller startups. For now in order to get a ranking you must have in between 40 and 1000 employees

If the list intends to include “the largest saas companies” it seems strange to exclude companies with over 1000 staff.

If you go down to page 5 or 6, GNU Emacs is listed.

Note: “fastest growing” in terms of numbers of employees, not necessarily in terms of influence, customers, revenue, or profits

Number of employees is not necessarily a very indicative metric for fastest growing

One thing that’s eye opening is how many of these aren’t in the Bay Area, but are in a few other cities that never get any attention for producing a lot of software companies.

Some of the bigger SaaS companies are missing from the list

I'm curious how you get your metrics/info on each company.